Katie Fassbinder, M.D. (she/her) is a practicing psychiatrist in Wisconsin with over 20 years of experience, focused on fostering healing and wholeness through authentic connection. Much of her work has been in the public sector, where she served as the Medical Director for mental health services across four counties in Southwest Wisconsin. She currently serves as the Director of Mental Health & Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at the Promega Corporation in Madison, WI. In this role, she is developing and implementing the world’s first in-house corporate KAP (Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy) program for Promega employees, embedded within the on-site Wellness Center. She also directs group KAP experiences at the Usona Institute’s immersive psychedelic training programs.

 

Katie’s work in psychedelics is inspired by the re-emergence of psychedelic medicines in psychiatry and the profound opportunities they offer for transformative inner work. In addition to individual and group KAP, her practice incorporates psychiatric care, Reiki, ecstatic dance, and auricular acupuncture.

As a physician instructor at Elemental Psychedelics’ ketamine training program, Katie aims to deliver clear, evidence- and practice-based, up-to-date, and pragmatic clinical information to prepare both prescribing and non-prescribing mental health professionals for their own ketamine-assisted therapy practices.